Why is it so hard to make friends as adults? If you’ve ever looked around and wondered why making friends feels harder now than it did when you were young, you’re not alone. In recent years I’ve found myself craving deeper friendships but struggling to build them. I have never been an extrovert, but even […]
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In a world where screens dominate our work, social lives and even our downtime, finding entertaining ways to unplug can be difficult. Try and make those options affordable, family and planet-friendly and doable from home (or portable), and the list becomes even shorter. If you’re like me, you finish the day mentally drained but still
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It might sound like just another bizarre trend, but laughter yoga is an established practice helping people all around the world release tension. It combines intentional laughter with traditional breathing techniques from yoga. Founded in 1995 by Indian physician Dr. Madan Kataria, laughter yoga was created on the simple idea that “the body can’t distinguish between
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There’s been a lot of talk lately — including from Bernie Sanders — about shortening the work week in the face of ever-improving productivity driven by AI and other technologies. On paper, this makes sense: if machines do more of the repetitive work, surely humans should get more time back. But as someone working in
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